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Emerging therapeutic approaches for osteogenesis imperfecta.
Trends in molecular medicine - 1 Jun 2005
Millington-Ward Sophia, McMahon Helena P, Farrar G Jane
Abstract excerpt
Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is an incurable genetic brittle-bone disease. Although drug therapy, surgery and physiotherapy represent current treatments for OI, the search is ongoing for effective and innovative new therapies targeting the underlying causes of the disease. In this regard, recent advances in the fields of gene and stem-cell therapies have been considerable. In spite of the many challenges that...
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